Al right the new issue is out and i enjoyed every second.
Spoilers:
Ken’s dad from Street fighter IIV made an apearance.
Seeing Balrog(boxer)punched the shit out that car in a hoody was Tight!:badboy:
And sakura actually fighting and winning was good too. :tup:
Point out:
A question was posted on what was ken hit after he made hadoken, it was Vega(ninja) foot.
Back up:
Although I love keron grant’s work on this , it was still kinda sketchy.
Great to see R.mika finally making a debut in the comics,and hilarious to find zangief not knowing the match was real or not.
Cheapshots:
It finally ends. I would like to see more of the duo in a much more comedic light(like Larry demonstrate to his friend he can SFAlpha or 3rd Strike with a DDR pad)
Keep up the good work Udon, and can’t wait what happens next.
Spoiler:
Will Ryu dodge the bullet, or will Sakura make it in time ?
I liked “G.I. Guile” and Ryu cracking a joke. Good stuff!
So, with R.Mika in the back up, they’ve got all the SFZ(Alpha) characters minus Juli and the Final Fight characters. And one more issue to end the SFZ Arc. So, will we get Juli soon with a T.Hawk tie in and Final Fight in a Metro City story later?
Anyway, I felt the artwork this month was very consistent, even if that blurry kick to Ken’s face confused me a bit.
Man, Balrog(ninja) won the rematch! Oooh… looks like they are setting things up for Balrog vs. Ken in SF2.
Oh, and Mike Bison(Boxer) is da man! I loved how he was explaining weapon differences to his thugs.
The back up was pretty funny, R.Mika fake wrestling, HA! HA!
Oh yeah, I meant as in SFZ(alpha) original characters as opposed to SF2 ones. And as far as SF2 goes we still haven’t seen T.Hawk either.
We know that Ryu is supposed to visit Dhalsim and the next arc will begin with Ryu traveling so it’s probably coming up. And I’m wondering if he’ll be traveling with Sakura or if Sakura will get spun off to Rival Schools and Ryu will be alone.
Just picked it up 20 minutes ago. Good issue, overall.
My only complaint is that sometimes the panels got hard to follow. Guess I’m just used to a horizontal flow as opposed to the vertical one they used at times.
Probably the only issue out of all of them to leave you with a real cliffhanger ending making you NEED to get the next issue.
Ending the issue in the middle of the fight is a good touch. Can’t wait for next month.
On a related note, I still haven’t got my Series 1 toys in the mail yet, and Heroes and Fantasies still hasn’t gotten any SF Eternal Challenges in. This angers me.
Definately a great, consistent issue. I loved the art and excellent story pacing. It was such a balance of character development and ass kicking. What tension it is to end an issue like that! I like that every one had a good amount of appearance. Interesting to see Cammy and Blanka’s relation. I think the only thing I I’d wish is a consistent look for Julia. She’s been a dark brunette, a dirty blonde, to a blonde in separate issues. But hey, maybe she just loves the hair dye.
This issue was such a great turn in the story arc. Thanks Udon.
Juli was in that group Doll scene of all the Dolls fighting Chun-Li’s father, wasn’t she? She was the one being slammed to the ground by him at the beginning of that scene, I think. Unless that was Satsuki, but it looked like Juli to me.
Picked this issue up along with the DS#3 Powerfoil. The foil was surpisingly cheap, only $5 Canadian.
I agree with wakasashe that there is a good mix of characterization and action in this issue, which is great. I particulary liked how Vega is portrayed, confident and vicious. Backstory was fun - good to see Mika show up.
Great issue overall. Vega and Balrog are two sedestic MFers, arent they? Glad to see Zangief in another backup and great to see Mika finally appear. I would love to see Zangief,Mika and Karin appear in the main story arc though, I know zangief will, hopefully Karin and Mika also. I guess the third arc is where Ryu picks up and travels to India to meet Dhalsim. Sakura should go and atleast make it through another arc or two.I mean,she hasn’t even done any serious fighting yet,and it seems she is just getting started. She beat up a few thugs in this issue, which was cool, just want her to get some serious fights in with other street fighters. I guess issue 15 will focus on Bison’s return and more on Rose and hopefully Sagat will show up again. I am also guessing the third arc(6-8 issues) will finish up the alpha story and the fourth arc will take us into the setups for the street fighter 2 tourney.
HORRIBLE ISSUE.i loved seeing the white men beat down all those stereotypical black men from “the hood”.oh, and cammy was just great in this issue! with her being on only one forgettable page and all. and is it just me or was this cover COMPLETELY irrelevant to the source material?
First things first … BlackWidow … Ug. By white men you mean Ken and Guile right because Ryu isn’t white and Sakura isn’t a man or white.
Loved this issue although i do feel that things are starting to pull away from a kinda Street Fighter feel. But hey the Alpha arc is almost done right. Back up story was VERY pleasing. I’ve been waiting for R.Mika to show up.
My Speculation for next issue!
The way i see it there are probally 2 ways to do the “ryu with a gun pointed at him” angle. I see it both ways with Sakura defending her master. Thought 1: She’ll finally fire off her first Hadouken(sp) and in the aftermath Ryu will stop training her because of how dangerous things are getting and he can’t be responsible if she gets hurt badly (after seeing what happened to ken). OR Thought 2(i like this thought better): Sakura fills with anger that someone pulls a gun to kill her beloved master and the dark hadou takes her. She goes all out on the guy, scaring the crap out of Balrog (he runs off saying this S*&( is crazy) and Ryu has to put Sakura down to keep her from killing the thug. Ryu then says that he can no longer train her in the arts because the power of the dark hadou is something that should never develope in her. Ryu sends her back home.
Then next i’m speculating on what i’d like to see with Guile Vs. Vega. I would love to see guile go all out on Vega. At first Guile is kinda losing as parts of his clothes get slashed up. Vega stands over him talking about possibly making him another Agent Shadow (a life of servitude to him as punishment for entering the fight). Guile remembers how they made Nash into Shadow. He criss-crosses his arms grabbing his sleeves and tears them off to reveal his American Flag tatoo and arms bulging tense. Guile, in a rage, lands a few combos on Vega while saying things like “You bastards are the reason why Charlie is dead” and things like that. Guiles’ daughter runs from her mothers grasp and peeks in the door to see her daddy fight the “bad guys” and her mother follows after her. THey both peek in through the cracked door to hear Guile talking about Nash and how vega “murdered” him (in a way they did). This is the point where Guiles’ wife has sympathy for his cause and give him the okay to compete in the next SF tournament to avenge his friend. Vega tries for a slash at Guiles midsection but guiles backflips away and turns the backflip into a Flash Kick, sending Vega into the air dazed. As vega is about to land, guile finishes up with a trademark uppercut which sends him up again. Guile then dashes back and lets out a sonic boom that catches Vega in the stomach, sending him through the wall and out of the hotel. End of fight.
Any ways … this is what i’d like to see … or rather how i’d like to see it.
… just one more thing … is it just me or did Balrog not seem like a street fighter at all. He seems more like a common thug kinda guy … i’m not seeing what’s making him special. And that was a car he punched? I couldn’t tell what that was. … i thought it was the wall or something.
I can’t wait to see the story pick back up with Dhalsim and Sagat. As far as cheap shots go … I’d like to see them go back to single contained stories. I loved “Psycho Balled” …
First off, resolution of Ryu at gunpoint: Have we all forgotten that Bison needs Ryu and that Vega & Balrog work for Bison? Vega will slaughter the gunman… turning his back on Guile… and we all know that’s never a good idea…
Second off, while I enjoyed seeing R. Mika in action, please tell me I DID NOT just see Zangief job to R. Mika. No freakin’ way. While Zangief isn’t exactly top-tier in the SF universe, he’s easily head and shoulders above anyone introduced in the Alpha series, except maybe Rose…
Also, did I see either Alpha 2 Gief or Z-ism Gief in that backup, because I know Gief doesn’t have a Lariat super, yet I saw him do the Lariat with blue afterimages.
Finally, LOL @ Balrog using his Raging Buffalo super to knock his henchmen out of the way.
I’m also slightly distraught by Zangief getting beat by R.Mika. Although, you could just chalk it up to not being familiar with a different variation of wrestling. I mean, he got punched below the belt, after all. Still, I don’t know if Mika should’ve been able to handle that suplex like she did.
I have to admit i’m alittle upset that Zangief keeps losing (in his 2 matches). Mostly because in games like Marvel Vs. Capcom i’ve played people who schooled me using Zangief. I feel like such a loser now. Losing to ken i understand… but R.Mika kinda feels wrong … seems like it should have been a cheap shot not a back up story. No way R.Mika could have walked off that power bomb like that even if she is a stunt wrestler. I’d like to see a back up where Zangief, now totally depressed from his losses, goes back to russia to wrestle more bears to prep for the tournament. I’d be funny to see Kuma from Tekken in the backround (like how they cameo’d for Tekken (Jun and Kayzua) in the Cammy V. DeeJay back story).
I think Ryu should dodge the bullet next issue. In SF2 the Animated movie, he jumped real high to avoid gunfire. In SF2V, Ryu and Ken feared no bullets, but Dhalsim told them to think of the people behind them. In the SFZ Anime, he straight up dodged the bullets. I think for comic books, it’s important to have someone dodge bullets. You know, as in “faster than a speeding bullet.”
And I never want to see SNH Sakura in any of these books. Next they will have her struggling with SNH and she will REALLY become just like Ryu. It will ruin the whole “Go get’em Sakura! You can do it!” chaaracter we all know and love. Leave SNH Sakura to the vs. games.
I loved Mike Bison punching away those thugs, but what exactly happened with the car he hit? Between this and Balrog(Ninja’s) foot hitting Ken, I don’t think the blurring effects worked to well here. That’s my only gripe.
As for what I want to see - Sakura gets another E-Mail from Hinato. “Justice High School has gone nuts! HEEEEELP!” And Sakura goes off to the Rival Schools comic. After Ryu finds Dhalsim and beats him, he hauls tail over to Metro City in search of strong fighters and meets Chun-Li (I WANT MY TWO FAVORITE CHARACTERS TO MEET ALREADY!!!) who’s investigating thugs like her SVC ending. There they meet Guy, Cody (not in jail yet), Haggar, Rolento, and Sodom and we have a fake Final Fight story arc much like that episode off the USA SF Cartoon, only with Chun-Li instead of Ken. And then the comic falls to financial ruin for listening to a fanboy on the Net. I put my faith in Ken Siu-Chong, he’s done an excellent job so far! :tup:
Still, I don’t know if Mika should’ve been able to handle that suplex like she did.
I put my faith in Ken Siu-Chong, he’s done an excellent job so far! :tup: